Novena for Cancer

O good St. Peregrine, patron of those suffering from cancer and incurable diseases, I beseech you, grant relief from suffering for those who need it.

 

In your compassion, I beg you to intercede with Our Lord Jesus Christ that mankind may soon find a cure for the dreaded disease of physical cancer as well as for the moral cancer which grips so much of our world today.

A battle with cancer is often a very long and difficult process. Those who struggle with cancer for a long time endure a lot of physical suffering, and many endure emotional and mental suffering as well. You are able to give all the grace needed to those who have had a long battle with cancer.

 

Cancer patients need a lot of help from skilled and caring medical professionals, while battling their cancer. Doctors and nurses help ease the sufferings of cancer patients and administer life-saving treatment to them. Medical professionals treating cancer patients are in need of skill and love to do their job well.

 

Though cancer remission must be a great joy and relief to cancer patients, some people experience a return of their cancer. Returning cancer can be a cause of deep mental and emotional anguish, and those whose cancer has returned are in great need of help.

 

A terminal cancer diagnosis can be an extremely difficult event. Those who have been told by a doctor that their cancer will kill them must suffer great emotional and mental anguish. Terminal cancer patients are in great need of strength and grace to persevere through the sufferings they will soon face.

 

Glorious wonder-worker, St. Peregrine, you answered the divine call with a ready spirit, and forsook all the comforts of a life of ease and all the empty honors of the world to dedicate yourself to God in the Order of His holy Mother. You labored manfully for the salvation of souls. In union with Jesus crucified, you endured painful sufferings with such patience as to deserve to be healed miraculously of an incurable cancer in your leg by a touch of His divine Hand. Obtain for me the grace to answer every call of God and to fulfill His will in all the events of life.

O great St. Peregrine, you have been called 'The Mighty, ' 'The Wonder-Worker, ' because of the numerous miracles which you have obtained from God for those who have had recourse to you.
For so many years you bore in your own flesh this cancerous disease that destroys the very fiber of our being, and who had recourse to the source of all grace when the power of man could do no more. You were favored with the vision of Jesus coming down from His Cross to heal your affliction.

 

If you are praying for someone with cancer:

Please bless and assist all people with cancer, and I especially ask You today to help all those who have battled cancer for a long time! Ask of God and Our Lady, the cure of the sick whom I entrust to you.
(Pause here and silently recall the names of the sick for whom you are praying)

 

Or if you are the cancer patient in need of aid:
Enkindle in my heart a consuming zeal for the salvation of all men. Deliver me from the infirmities that afflict my body, especially (name any ailments you may have). Obtain for me also a perfect resignation to the sufferings it may please God to send me, so that, imitating our crucified Savior and His sorrowful Mother, I may merit eternal glory in heaven. Help us to grow closer to You in all of our sufferings. Help us to take every opportunity to grow in holiness in our lives.

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Amen.

Say Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be, three times.